About the Editor

Roberto has over 25 years experience in the IT field, and has spent the last 12 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he has served on advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. After serving as Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge for over 4 years, in 2016 he started a new company called Business Follows, whose mission is to is to help developers, companies and organizations to make Open Source development a key part of their business strategies. He is the editor of commercial open source blog.

Open source is in a position to influence patent reform and help the small businesses that drive our economy. Shouldn’t we consider taking a look at the candidates from this perspective? I thought allowing people to share their opinion on who they see as the best “open source candidate” would be a good way to start a larger discussion.

This information is misleadingly and is not true because the Arnone’s plan includes a part of open source philosophy, too! You can find the complete plan at the link http://www.peppearnone.net/ultime/programma.html
A part of the plan:
“sposeremo la filosofia alla base dell’open source, favorendo la partecipazione attiva di volontari allo sviluppo di quei processi necessari affinché il ‘sistema provincia’ assicuri delle risposte pronte”.

According to that Eugenio D’Orsi wants to open up the dialog with associations and companies, in order to collaboratively define a plan to efficientize the IT procurement process. The role of IT firms seems central in his vision.

Peppe Arnone instead is willing to bring in the equations volunteers to help the province to promptly answer citizens’ needs.

Open source for public administrations is about foster open source ecosystems or is about involving volunteers?